Oliver Wolf Sacks (born July 9, 1933, London) is a United States-based British neurologist who has written popular books about his patients, the most famous of which is Awakenings, which was adapted into a film starring Robin Williams and Robert De Niro.

Sacks considers that his literary style follows the tradition of 19th-century "clinical anecdotes," a literary style that included informal case histories, following the writings of Alexander Luria.Sacks is a childhood friend of Jonathan Miller and a cousin of Robert Aumann and the late Abba Eban.

Jamaica Kincaid (b. Elaine Cynthia Potter Richardson, 25 May 1949 in St. John's, Antigua and Barbuda) is an American novelist, gardener, and gardening writer. She lives with her family at North Bennington in the U.S. state of Vermont.

Ezra Jack Keats (March 11, 1916 – May 6, 1983) author of The Snowy Day, was an easel artist and one of the most important children's literature authors and illustrators of the 20th Century.

Keats is best known for introducing multiculturalism into mainstream American children's literature. He was one of the first children’s book authors in the English-speaking world to use an urban setting for his stories, and he developed the use of collage as a medium for illustration.